The
Tank Museum, in association with the University of Wolverhampton, is to award a
£1,000 Prize for the best article on Armoured Warfare focusing on how tanks
have contributed to the development of warfare since their arrival on the
battlefield in September 1916. The Prize is funded by the Arts Council England. The
article will be published in full in the British Journal for Military
History (www.bjmh.org.uk).

Entries
are invited from Undergraduate or Postgraduate students at any university.
Articles submitted for consideration must be a piece of original research on
one of two topics.

1)
Armoured warfare in the First World War.

2)
The introduction
and development of recurring themes of armoured warfare, for example, the
infantry support role versus independent mobile arm, or the tanks as invaluable
asset versus costly peripheral weapon system. The research needs to reflect these themes in relation to their
introduction during the First World War, and the continued development of
armoured warfare over the last one hundred years, rather than purely an
assessment of the role of tanks in a specific battle.

Articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length
(including footnotes). Entrants are encouraged to make use of the archival
holdings of The Tank Museum at Bovington.

Entries will be judged by a panel that includes two academics and
two representatives of The Tank Museum. Articles submitted to the competition
may be published in an abbreviated form in Tracklink, the magazine of The
Friends of The Tank Museum, and the winner will be published in full in the British
Journal for Military History. Please see this link for BJMH author guidelines
http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.

Entries are to be submitted electronically by 12:00 on
Friday 5th October 2018. The Prize winner will be announced in early November.

For more information on or an appointment to use the
Archives at The Tank Museum please contact Stuart Wheeler: stuartw@tankmuseum.org Tel: 01929
405096 ext 230

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